We raised a bunch of money

Re:We raised a bunch of money by rco8786 on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @11:32AM (#36507941)

> My new heuristic is that I avoid every single company that raises venture funding.

What about posting on a forum owned and operated by a venture firm?

Do you use Google? Slack? Facebook? The list of venture backed tech firms is endless.

I don't even disagree with the general sentiment...but your resolution seems particularly short-sighted.

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Re:We raised a bunch of money by tjoff on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @11:42AM (#36508126)

> Do you use Google? Slack? Facebook? The list of venture backed tech firms is endless.

Not a convincing list of companies there...

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Re:We raised a bunch of money by rco8786 on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @02:35PM (#36510616)

I chose those because they are ubiquitous and downright hard to avoid. What do you want to bet OP made that post on a Chrome browser? Or an Android/iPhone/Macbook? Is there even a way to purchase a computer of any sort that doesn't involve supporting a venture backed company? The list of venture backed companies is so long, it would be exhaustive if not impossible to avoid using them without going off grid.

How many venture backed companies do you think are involved just in me pressing the "reply" button to send this post?

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Re:We raised a bunch of money by tjoff on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:51PM (#36511676)

Sure, but that just reinforces the idea to not support them in the beginning?

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